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Justin Lane/Pool/Getty Images. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Wednesday trying to stop one of the biggest counties in Texas from mailing voter registration forms to large swaths ...
September 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Bexar County officials Wednesday morning over their plan to mail voter registration forms to unregistered residents en masse ...
The correspondence comes in the wake of repeated Republican moves against voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts in Texas’s Democratic-leaning urban counties — a campaign that comes ...
According to a 2020 study, voter registration laws adopted in the period 1880–1916 reduced turnout as much as 19 percentage points. [8] North Dakota abolished voter registration in 1951 for state and federal elections, the only state to do so. [1] It has since 2004 required voters to produce ID at time of casting a vote.
v. t. e. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), also known as the Motor Voter Act, is a United States federal law signed into law by President Bill Clinton on May 20, 1993, that came into effect on January 1, 1995. [1] The law was enacted under the Elections Clause of the United States Constitution and advances voting rights in the ...
ERIC member states [5] The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States whose goal is to improve electoral integrity by helping states improve the accuracy of voter rolls, increase access to voter registration, reduce election costs, and increase efficiencies in elections.
Bexar County commissioners approved a nearly $400,000 plan Tuesday to mail voter registration forms to unregistered county residents, setting them up for a likely legal fight against Texas ...
Texas House elections are held every two years on Election Day. For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making part of the Solid South. In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent. By the 1990s, it became the state's ...